Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

great disappointment to me, II 1t
turns out that you are right. You
see, Daniel, if l had the power to ap.
point and remove, I might be OF
great service to my friend Kenna, in
the event this man Lucas Wilson
trying TO defeat him when he runs
next time. You see where it places
me, Daniel, and / don't like it a bit.
1 must be in a position to help Ken
ma, for am told he did me great
favor once. / have forgotten what
1t was, but perhaps you can remem-
Der, Daniel. You know pay you
for such things and it is your place
to remember these things for me.
Let's see, what was it Kenna did for
me, Daniels"
"He quoted from Blaine's book
once. when you were getting the
worst of 1t, in the Senate, sire."
"Did Blaine mention me in his
book, Daniel. Why, that was very
kind of him. / never read his book,
but you must write him a letter and
thank him for me, Daniel. What
was his book about, Daniel?n
"You misapprehend me, sire. |
didn't mean to say that Blame men.
toned You in his book. / meant
that Kenna made a speach out OF
Blaine's book and applied Bsaine's
argument to you"
"Why, Daniel, Blaine never made
any argument to me! | never had
any thing to do with Blaine ia my
life. l don't like him anyhow, and
if he has written a book and not
mentioned me in it, I don't think it
can be much of book"
=" You still misunderstood me, sire.
/ mean that Kenna garbled Blaine's
book and used Blaine's argument or
statement as his own. / don't think
your Excellency can understand
this matter and we had better change
the subject.n d4baae ss
7 "Daniel, take care! really be-
lieve there is some sort of an insinu-
alton in your language. You must
not undertake to become imperti.
nent. l always get confused when
Blaine's name is mentioned and /
would rather you would not inject
him into our conversations"
"By the way, Daniel, speaking of
Windy Lucas, or Wilson, or what
ever his name is, didn't / see in some
of the radical papers where he
tackled buzz saw are something of
the sort the other day at Wheelings"
81 presume your Excellency re-
fers to the Foraker Wilson matter
at the reunion at Wheeling
eyes, perhaps that is what l was
thinking of. This man Foraker is a
sort of holy terror, isn't hef He
is the fellow that made me take
water, when / was making my re-
cent rebel flag bid for the Southern
confederate support, wasn't hes"
1.-THE same, SIRE"
"They say that this man Foraker
did Windy up in great shape. Well,
as dull as you and are, Daniel, we
would have had more sense than to
go right into a soldiers reunion and
tell them that they were on the
wrong side of the unpleasantness,
and the fellows that they fought
against were as good as they are and
such stuff as that. We might think
like Windy upon this subject, but
we wouldn't have had the impu-
dence to say itright when lot of
soldiers were recalling the patriotic
acts of the Union soldiers, and hav-
ing regular love feast. 1t is a
wonder to me that they didn't limb,
string and jayhawk Windy. We
wouldn't have gone right into fam.
lily circle, Daniel, and called the
head of the family an old bald head
ed liar and the balance of the family
frauds, thieves and murderers. We
would expect to be knocked down
and have that family dance Vir.
ginia reel all over us, wouldn't we,
Daniels | think, Daniel, that this
Windy as you call him, is what the
great Andrew jackson would have
called q DID fool. / don't think
i want this man Windy on our list,
Daniel. / am afraid he is entirely
too repulsive and imprudent for our
purpose. We can make enough fool
blunders ourselves, Daniel, without
having to stand responsible for the
imbecility of this man Windy. But
I am tired now, and think I shall
go into the executive session. You
may bring me the bottle of fish bait
that was left over from our last out
ing, you will find it behind the COO
Ter, and then Daniel you may &c
over and get some pointers on civil
service from our friend Higgins
You. can wake me up when you
think / have slept off the effects Of
the fish bait. There. you may kiss
my hand, Daniel.-Charleston I'ri
buae.
f,nna1 Ad1tertisnm hnts.